More on “Not a Bug”
Posted March 1st, 2003 @ 08:25pm by Erik J. Barzeski
I should have written a bit more clearly in my previous article on this "bug" (note the quotes), but having failed to do so previously, I'll do so now.
This behavior (allowing you to replace a folder with a file) is not a bug, but the dialog could be worded better. Flat out not allowing me to replace something when I have explicitly instructed the Finder to do so - by dragging and dropping something to a different location - is in fact the bug, and it existed in Mac OS < X. Thus, I consider 9's behavior to be the annoying - and buggy - one, not X's. Again I agree, however, that 9's dialogs on this were better worded.
Jon lists two possible reasons why you could not do this in 9, but I'll add a third: the Finder 9 engineers went overboard in their efforts to protect the user from themselves. That doesn't make them idiots as Jon's first idea states (as a possibility to explain this behavior).
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Posted 03 Mar 2003 at 11:36am #
Crescent Rentzsch, and Finder bugs
...I find myself agreeing with Bill and Michael. Overwriting an item with another should move the first one to the Trash, in such a way to make this fully undoable. If the new item is copied from another volume, and space is so crowded as to make it ne...
Posted 13 Feb 2007 at 7:38am #
It never occurred to you to check what your rock solid foundation has to say in the matter?
Posted 14 Feb 2007 at 8:56am #
[quote comment="39480"]It never occurred to you to check what your rock solid foundation has to say in the matter?[/quote]
That, like this, makes absolutely no sense. The article found at thelink (which I presume is yours), spells things incorrectly and gets so many other facts wrong it's flat out laughable.